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July Common ACEO 2

3.5″X2.5″ Acrylic on paper Here is the third of the series. The other nice thing about these is that they serve as thumbnail studies. So if I like the overall composition I might work them up into something larger later. [...]

July Common ACEO

3.5″X2.5″ Acrylic on paper They finally mowed the meadow-grass on the common on Friday but I managed to get a bunch of photos before they did it. it. [...]

The Shaw

6″X4″ Watercolour on paper I apologize for the shortage of new stuff this week, I have been sketching but not really anything I want to post. This is the Shaw Festival Theatre where I work, viewed from the Niagara-on the-Lake common and painted ab… [...]

High Noon

8″X5″ Pen & wash on paper

This is me playing with fountain pen and water brush again. The weather has been so perfect that I have felt compelled to go out onto the common at lunchtime. The meadow grass hasn’t been cut yet and and the colours, sounds and smells are intoxicating. Too bad [...]

Storm Approaching

7″X5″ Watercolour on paper

I watched these massive storm clouds rolling in from the Niagara Falls to the South of us. The thunder was rumbling and and the raindrops staring to splatter so I took a picture with my cell phone and went back to work. I finished this at home.

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More Common

7″X5″ Watercolour on paper

This has been a bit of a disastrous weekend. I can’t seem to find the time to paint so I pulled this one from deep in the archive. It seems appropriate because it is the same old theme and about the right time of year. This little bridge carries the [...]

May Common Again

7″X5″ Acrylic on paper

I thought I would try this again in acrylic. I shouldn’t have bothered really, I liked it better in watercolour. There is a very special light out there at high noon which creates a rather wonderful backlit effect. I still haven’t quite got it. I may keep on trying, maybe [...]

May Common

5.5 X3.5″ Watercolour on paper

Sorry, I have completely run out of titles. I took a break between two seating plans today (Sunday in the Park with George opening tomorrow night and A Moon for the Misbegotten which opens on Saturday afternoon). I meant to go for a walk but I was completely beguiled [...]

Another Tree

11″X8″ Marker on paper

I wasn’t going to post anything tonight, feeling a bit under-the-weather and sorry for myself, then I remembered that I had done this a couple of days ago out on the common at lunchtime. I did rather a lot of these last year, combining Copic markers and office highlighters, it [...]

The Tree

6″X6″ Oil on panel

This tree sits in the middle of the Niagara-on-the-Lake common. It lost a branch in a winter storm and it is very lopsided. I don’t think it is long for this world.

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